• 0 – Asymptomatic (Fully active, able to carry on all predisease activities without restriction)• 1 – Symptomatic but completely ambulatory (Restricted in physically strenuous activity but ambulatory and able to carry out work of a light or sedentary nature. For example, light housework, office work)• 2 – Symptomatic, <50% in bed during the day (Ambulatory and capable of all self care but unable to carry out any work activities. Up and about more than 50% of waking hours)• 3 – Symptomatic, >50% in bed, but not bedbound (Capable of only limited self-care, confined to bed or chair 50% or more of waking hours)• 4 – Bedbound (Completely disabled. Cannot carry on any self-care. Totally confined to bed or chair)• 5 – Death

You need to add PITASerious tho, I am willing to take all the info here so you can remove everything or start a new with all so it's front. It is confusing cuz people click and see, but do they click the last page? So, maybe we start a new or edit this thread. Ideas besides mine?

CRguy wrote:You may wish to start your own topic for this so you can edit and update it in a different manner.We could then link your topic post to this original one and folks can have the best of both worlds.

From the past, all folks who actually knew justsing are not in favor of changing her original topic.

CheersCR

It was just a thought, I don't want to do anything that may upset anyone.

TNM T= tumors?N=nodes?M=meds?How do you get this information? When I asked my dads oncologist she didnt seem to know what I was talking about. I finally got a copy of my dads biopsy reports today. There is alot more to dads situation than we were told. Such as the size of the tumors in his colon and liver. They took out 16 nodes and 6 were positive for cancer. Wasnt told that either.The surgeon only removed the part of the colon that was bleeding, referring to it as pallative surgery in the report. We were led to believe they got all cancer from colon but it had went to his liver. The report says there were other cancerous places in colon he left because they were not bleeding and would not change the fact it has already spread. When dad passed a blood clot 11 days after surgery we asked if the cancer had came back in the colon and were told they didn't think so.None of this changes anything anyway. Dad is slipping away more each day. Now he has pain in his back abdomen. The PT tried to put a gait belt around him and he screamed in pain from her pushing against him. He never did that before. He sleeps alot, eats little. He has lost about 5lbs a week. Today they started him on a morphine based long acting pain medication. I don't remember the name of it. Just wondering about these staging letters and numbers.Thanks again for being here.

Pebblesgrgrma wrote:TNM T= tumors?N=nodes?M=meds?How do you get this information? When I asked my dads oncologist she didnt seem to know what I was talking about. I finally got a copy of my dads biopsy reports today. There is alot more to dads situation than we were told. Such as the size of the tumors in his colon and liver. They took out 16 nodes and 6 were positive for cancer. Wasnt told that either.The surgeon only removed the part of the colon that was bleeding, referring to it as pallative surgery in the report. We were led to believe they got all cancer from colon but it had went to his liver. The report says there were other cancerous places in colon he left because they were not bleeding and would not change the fact it has already spread. When dad passed a blood clot 11 days after surgery we asked if the cancer had came back in the colon and were told they didn't think so.None of this changes anything anyway. Dad is slipping away more each day. Now he has pain in his back abdomen. The PT tried to put a gait belt around him and he screamed in pain from her pushing against him. He never did that before. He sleeps alot, eats little. He has lost about 5lbs a week. Today they started him on a morphine based long acting pain medication. I don't remember the name of it. Just wondering about these staging letters and numbers.Thanks again for being here.

This might get moved, or you can start a new topic. Just FYI. TNM = Tumor, Nodes, Metastases, not meds